Topband: The Stew Perry Extravaganza

[Lew Sayre]

Carriers of the 160M Affliction,
     The starting time grows near for the 24 hour running of the 13th
edition
of The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge sponsored by that prescience
Boring Amateur Radio Club.  The weather is awful, the economy is worse and
the holidays are stressful..but The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge is the
tonic that will restore you!
     Point your computer to:

http://www.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
<http://www.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html>for information about the
scoring, times,
and very cool factoids that make this contest the fastest growing 160M
contest
in our particular solar system.
      One of the peculiarities that make The Stew one of the better RF
battles is
that the combatants get to pick categories for plaques to be awarded.  A
mere $50
gets your call on a plaque as a donor that will be awarded for whatever
glorious RF
endeavor you feel is worthy...within good taste and sensibilities.
    Listed below are the Stalwart Contesters who have already sponsored
plaques
for this year's battle.  You can join this illustrious group by sending an
email to me
suggesting a class then following that up with a $50 note or even Paypal to
us.
Be sure to hail these illuminaries at Dayton and Vegas or wherever you see
them
as the heros they are for what they're doing for contesting.

Call             Category
KL7RA       Highest # of QSO's
KB7Q        Top Score QRP
K1EP        Top Score, Low Power using Elecraft K3 radio
TF3KX       Aurora Borealis Award (Top score > 60 deg North geomagnetic
                 latitude QTH)
AE6RF     Top Score Low Power in W6
NA0Y      Top Score USA
VK6VZ     Top Score with antenna in space < 20m X 10m- (winner gets Royal
                 Flying Doctors of Australia cap rather than plaque)
W7TMT     Top Score Low Power First Time Entry
N7UA      Top Score High Power
K6DBG    Top Score First Time QRP (no qrp entry X past 3 years)
KI7Y     Top Score High Power Oregon-(W7GG/Ai7B Memorial)
N7KQ     Top Score Central/South America
K7FL     Top Score 100% Search & Pounce
KR2Q     Golden Log Award (highest # of Q's with no errors)
N7JW     Top Score South of The Equator
K7CA     Top Score from Zones 17, 18, 22 or 23
F8BPN    Top Score, Europe, Low Power
N5IA     Most Grid Squares Worked
W7KF     Old Timer's Award- Oldest Participant to make at least 50 or more Q's
KH6LC    High Score Oceania
KH6LC    VK-ZL Challenge, Top Score VK/ZL
KJ9C     Top Score Black Hole (W9+MN,IA,MO)
BARC     Top Score JA
GMCC     Top Score > 4000' elevation
GMCC     Top Score Hi-power, W,VE,XE West of 100 deg longitude
GMCC     Top Score Low-power, W,VE,XE West of 100 deg longitude

     There will be at least one more Boring epistle noting these honorable
donors and the plaques they sponsor before the starting gun. That means there
is time for you to participate as a plaque donor. The email address is below.
    Bruce, WA7BNM, reminds us all that there exists a Web to Cabrillo form for
converting paper or non-Cabrillo logs to the Cabrillo format. This lives at:
http://www.b4h.net/cabforms/    There is also a downloadable program at the
Stew site mentioned at the top of this page.
     Hook up the coax to your gutter or neighbor's flagpole. Turn the bandswitch
to the 160M position, leave a message on the answering machine that you're
receiving therapy and be sure to get on for The Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge.
     See you in The Stew!
     73 and I remain,
     Lew    W7EW/W7AT
     w7ew at arrl.net
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club Plaqueing Posterity Person